Medicine, Religion, and the Body

Dr. Elizabeth Burns Coleman is Lecturer in English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Monash University and the ANU's Centre for Cross Cultural Research. She is author of Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation (2005), and co-editor of Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society (2006) and Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts (2008).Dr Kevin White is Reader in the School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. He has held appointments at Flinders University, Wollongong University, and the Victoria University of Wellington. His most recent publications include The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society (2006), (with Frank Lewins and Alastair Greig) and Inequality in Australia (2004) . He is coeditor of Negotiating the Sacred: Balsphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society (2006).

• Contributers include: Peter Arnds, Ruth Barcan,Christopher E. Forth, Peter Friedlander, Philomena Horsley, William Hoverd, Jay Johnston, Roxanne Marcotte,Brain McCoy, Roy O'Neill, Jeremy Shearmur, Therese Taylor,and Bryan S. Turner.